But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.(2 Corinthians 2:1)

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?(2 Corinthians 2:2)

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.(2 Corinthians 2:3)

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.(2 Corinthians 2:5)

Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.(2 Corinthians 2:6)

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.(2 Corinthians 2:7)

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2 Corinthians 2:4 - Cross Reference

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (Romans 9:2)

Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. (2 Corinthians 7:12)

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. (Psalm 119:136)

Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken. (Jeremiah 13:15)

And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. (2 Corinthians 12:15)

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him. (Leviticus 19:17)

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, (Luke 19:41)

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:2)

For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. (2 Corinthians 7:8)

(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: (Philippians 3:18)

Open rebuke is better than secret love. (Proverbs 27:5)